[$] Application monitoring with OpenSnitch
OpenSnitch is an "interactive application firewall". Like other firewalls, it uses a series of rules to decide what network traffic should be permitted. Unlike many other firewalls [...]
[$] Application monitoring with OpenSnitch
OpenSnitch is an "interactive application firewall". Like other firewalls, it uses a series of rules to decide what network traffic should be permitted. Unlike many other firewalls [...]
The realtime preemption end game — for real this time
Man pages maintenance suspended
Radicle 1.0 released
The 6.11 kernel has been released
[$] A discussion of Rust safety documentation
Kangrejos 2024 started off with a talk from Benno Lossin about his recent work to establish a standard for safety documentation in Rust kernel code. Lossin began his talk by giving [...]
LLVM 16.1.0 released
[$] The uncertain future of kernel regression tracking
Tracking of regressions seems like an important task for any project; there is no other way to ensure that known problems are fixed. At the 2024 Maintainers Summit, though, Thorst [...]
The realtime preemption pull request
[$] Tools for kernel developers
Konstantin Ryabitsev started a session on development tooling at the 2024 Maintainers Summit by saying that he does not want to be a "wrecking ball". If a given workflow is working [...]
[$] Linus and Dirk on succession, Rust, and more
The "Linus and Dirk show" has been a fixture at Open Source Summit for as long as the conference has existed; it started back when the conference was called LinuxCon. Since Linus [...]
[$] What the Nova GPU driver needs
In March, Danilo Krummrich announced the new Nova GPU driver — a successor to Noveau for controlling NVIDIA GPUs. At Kangrejos 2024, Krummrich gave a presentation about what it is, [...]
Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source
(Google Security Blog)
Uniting for Internet Freedom: Tor Project & Tails Join Forces (Tor blog)
[$] Debian changes OpenSSH packaging
In the wake of the XZ backdoor, the Debian project has revisited some of the patches included in its OpenSSH packages to improve security. The outcome of this is that the project w [...]